The first of several funeral ceremonies began in Iran on Tuesday for President Ebrahim Raisi, Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian and other victims of Sunday's helicopter crash near the Azerbaija

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At the signing ceremony of the North Atlantic Treaty on 4 April 1949, then-US President Harry Truman remarked that if this “simple document” had existed in 1914 and 1939, “it would have prevented the

The Netherlands will supply Ukraine with a batch of YPR-765 infantry fighting vehicles equipped with remote control, said Dutch Defense Minister Kajsa Ollongren. "The Netherlands will presently provid

British historian Timothy Garton Ash has used the prize money from his latest book to help provide the Ukrainian Armed Forces with badly needed drones and night-vision equipment. He spoke at the hando

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War on the Rocks – What happens in the Baltic will have major implications for regional defense and deterrence efforts. As such, it should be of interest to alliance members well beyond the sea’s litt

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The latest round of US tariffs is part of an increasingly disturbing and dangerous trend. Step by step, major powers are unraveling an international economic order that delivered enormous, unprecedent

The United States has transferred equipment to Ukraine to restore Kharkiv's power grids damaged by Russian troops, said U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Bridget Brink. "Last week we provided through USAID 5

Humanitarian assistance to Ukraine is decreasing even as the country’s needs escalate more than two years after the Russian invasion began, the UN refugee agency UNHCR has warned. In an interview with

The war in Ukraine has removed any remaining doubts that drones are transforming warfare. In the naval arena, Ukraine’s maritime drones are leading the world in terms of combat application. These expl

Russians are conducting sabotage and reconnaissance activities on the border with northern Ukraine’s Chernihiv and Sumy oblasts and increasing the density of minefields along the state border. This wa

The governor of Ukraine’s Kharkiv region said Tuesday the area was under Russian bombardment all night, while Ukraine’s military said the country’s air defenses shot down 28 of 29 Russian drones launc

TALLINN, Estonia — A Russian court on Monday opened the trial of a theater director and a playwright accused of advocating terrorism in a play, the latest step in an unrelenting crackdown on dissent i

After the liberation of Crimea, it will not become a demilitarized zone, with a large Ukrainian Black Sea Fleet establishing there, a MP and the national leader of the Crimean Tatar people, Mustafa Dz

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Testifying before the Senate Armed Services Committee in 2021, Admiral Philip Davidson, the retiring commander of U.S. military joint forces in the Indo-Pacific, expressed concern that China was accel

The Humanitarian Demining Research and Development (HD R&D) Programme, the Cambodian Mine Action Authority (CMAA) and demining operators are currently holding discussions on the use of new technologie

Major Powers Among Non-Signatories of Mine Ban Treaty Land Mines Mar 1, 2024 Defense spending and arms trade 25 years ago today, the Ottawa Mine Ban Treaty came into effect. While 164 countries have s

ADVERTISEMENT Last year, Ukraine became the most land-mined country on Earth. It is an inauspicious harbinger for this year’s 25th anniversary of the Ottawa Mine Ban Treaty entering international law.

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No matter how Russia's war in Ukraine ends, Dr. Yuriy Kuznetzov will be battling Vladimir Putin's madness for years. Kuznetzov is a Ukrainian surgeon and a national hero who stayed beside his patients

Early on a June morning in 2023, my colleagues and I drove down a bumpy dirt road north of Kyiv in Ukraine. The Ukrainian Armed Forces were conducting training exercises nearby, and mortar shells arce

Armed forces of neighbouring Nato countries could intercept incoming Russian missiles over Ukrainian territory, Voldymyr Zelenskiy has said. Ukraine’s president told Reuters: “Russians are using 300 p

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A convoy of 20 vehicles donated to Ukraine through London’s ultra-low emission zone (Ulez) scrappage scheme arrived over the weekend, a charity has said. More than 100 vehicles have been donated to Uk

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy believes that assistance from the North Atlantic Alliance in shooting down Russian missiles over the territory of Ukraine would help compensate for Kyiv's deficit in air

Poland has arrested nine members of an alleged Russian spy ring in connection with alleged sabotage plots, prime minister Donald Tusk said on Monday. “We currently have nine suspects detained and indi

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By RFE/RL Oleg Salvelyev has been appointed deputy defense minister by Russian President Vladimir Putin. Russian President Vladimir Putin on May 20 appointed Oleg Savelyev, the former minister on Crim

The United States and Ukraine's other partners are focused on the short-term protection needs of Ukrainians in Kharkiv and elsewhere, and "will continue to step up to meet Ukraine's most urgent needs,

Margarita Robles, Minister of Defence of Spain, announced the delivery of the second batch of Leopard tanks and other military aid to Ukraine on 20 May. Source: Robles during the 22nd meeting of the C

A BTR-50. Wikimedia Commons The thinly-protected, 1950s-vintage BTR-50 might not be the worst vehicle the Russian army has sent in a direct assault on Ukrainian positions, but it’s probably the oldest

Welcoming remarks: Mr. Aaron Korewa, Director, Warsaw Office, Europe Center, Atlantic Council Mr. David Dixon, Partner, Warsaw Office, Dentons Panel 1: “Risk and opportunity: the geopolitics of AI in